building me some decking....

[matpj]

Hi,
I'm building some decking in the front garden (we dont have a back garden) which will lie outside the kitchen and the protruding porch and go up to the kerb of our cul-de-sac (its in a parking bay area of the cul-de-sac next to our end of terrace house)

the problem is, the kerb is higher than ground-level, so I was going to have the decking raised slightly to meet this - about 1.5 feet.
(at the moment there is a ground level path and a bank of soil going up to the kerb)

just wondered if it is considered strange to have the decking raised above house groud-level (the front door is the other side of the porch area, so no doors will be going out onto the decking)

I was explaining it to my fiance earlier and she turned her nose up, cos she didn't like the sound of it - and was imagining something different.

opinions anyone?

if I was to do it at ground levelm I would have to dig vertically down from the cul-de-sac kerb, and would no doubt encounter a large deposit of concrete overspill from the road.... making my life quie difficult.

 

[andyboyo]

just take into consideration that the decking should really be below the DPC of the house.

you can always step up to the pavement level

 

[Thermo]

decking can be set at any level you want, it wont cause a problem with the dpc, as you can always shim the wall plate off of the wall, but it doesnt create the problem that a patio would above dpc level.

 

[matpj]

being a complete newbie when it comes to decking, what do you mean by wall-plate?

 

[WabbitPoo]

Its a plank attached to the wall, to which the frame of the deck is screwed for support.